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Now they have lost their chief port as well as their oil producing province.

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Pining for a Saban clone is going to be as destructive as pining for a Bryant clone was. I swear to God, our fan base wants a damn cult of personality, it’s like their self esteem and self image demand it.

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Bama had their Bryant clone in Bobby Bowden and blew him off for a guy who had not won anything. The fans that pine for the Bryants and the Sabans and the Bowdens are the ones that have made this program great. Those who constantly call for moderating expectations lead to mediocre outcomes.

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The Bible says repeatedly that Christ died once for all and is now seated at the right hand of God (Col. 3:1). He is not subject to being called down and sacrificed again and again by Roman Catholic priests (imagine the audacity). Put your faith in Christ alone, not his imagined presence in a piece of bread.

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But my problem is that Jesus explicitly says "this is my body..." and "Do this...". He could easily have taken the Protestant line and won the crowd back. Instead, he doubled down.

It is a difficult teaching.

Also, the Catholics and Orthodox deny that Christ is bring re crucified. They claim that they are being made present to the one sacrifice that already happened.”

On the Jewish Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), there were several rituals meant to show whether God accepted Israel’s sacrifices for sin. These rituals are described in the Talmud, which is a large collection of Jewish teachings and discussions. It was written down between about AD 200–500, but it preserves much earlier oral traditions, going back to the time of the Second Temple.

One ritual involved two goats. Lots were drawn to decide which goat was “for the Lord” (to be sacrificed) and which was the “scapegoat” (sent into the wilderness, symbolically carrying Israel’s sins away). Drawing the lot in the right hand was considered a good sign that God accepted the offering.

According to the Talmud (Yoma 39a), for about 40 years before the destruction of the Second Temple, the lot never came up in the right hand. Year after year, it always came up in the left. If the draw were random, the odds of that happening 40 times in a row are about 1 in a trillion.

There were three other signs mentioned for the same period


A crimson ribbon tied to the scapegoat, which was believed to turn white when sins were forgiven, stopped turning white.

The western lamp of the menorah, which normally stayed lit as a sign of God’s presence, kept going out.

The massive Temple doors were reported to open by themselves, which was seen as a warning sign.

All four of these changes are recorded together in Jewish sources, not Christian ones.

The Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans in AD 70. Forty years earlier puts the beginning of these signs around AD 30. Historians generally place the crucifixion of Jesus between AD 30 and 33, right in the middle of that window.

In Jewish thinking, these signs all pointed to one thing: God was no longer accepting the Temple sacrifices in the same way. In Christian theology, Jesus’ crucifixion is understood as a once-for-all sacrifice for sin, which would make animal sacrifices obsolete.

None of this proves anything by itself. But it is striking that Jewish sources themselves describe a long-term spiritual change, centered on the exact period when Christianity claims that the meaning of sacrifice fundamentally changed.

At the very least, it’s a historical puzzle worth thinking about.

All you have to do is an analysis of star ratings vs draft picks and there is NO DOUBT that ratings Do matter.

Not that I know of.

It is more about how bad we have become.

Doesn't it all start with the oline and running game?

If our hc built that, would it not be easier to find a oc to come in and install a passing game around it?

I'll answer.

Absolutely it all starts up front. Once you get that right, everything is easier. And to neglect that and think you can x and o out of it is a fools errand.

To my knowledge no one ever offered stoutland a head coaching job at 11 million a year. I'm not sure he wouldnt have taken it.

It would have been the perfect out of the box hire.

He is the world's foremost authority on offensive line play and the running game.

It all starts up front. I would take one Stoutland for 50 of these pen headed offensive gurus getting all the head coaching jobs.

It just occured to me that you people assume i mean hire him as o line coach. No. Most certainly not. We should have hired him as head coach.